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Re: Anyone remember this set?
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lugnet.space
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:42:14 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kevin Knoot writes:
> I seem to remember a classic space set that only consisted of 5 mf scale
> robots made from common pieces. Ring any bells?
Hmmm... are you sure you weren't dreaming? :-) The first "official" Lego
robots at Minifig scale that I remember came out circa 1994 in the Spyrius
line, and they were made from the standard set of minifig pieces.
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Space,Spyrius
Are you thinking of the "Crater Critters" set, by any chance? They were
robotic and made from common pieces, but much bigger than minifig scale.
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=Crater+Critters
Of course, there's nothing stopping you from building your own. Here's a
recipe for a robot I used to build as a kid. It comes out looking a little
like the Lost in Space (TV show) Robot. Bear with my ASCII art...
You need:
a 1x2 plate
a 1x1 round brick of some transparent color: the stud should have a hole in
the middle
a 2x2 cylinder brick
2 1x1 transparent plates (red & green, usually)
1 1x2 plate "laser", um... from above it looks vaguely like this...
_______
||O O||
||---||
|| ||
(Oh, that's awful -- sorry. It's the 1x2 plate with two little "handles"
poking out of the sides, that minifigs can *almost* grab comfortably.)
a 2x2 plate turntable
another 2x2 cylinder brick
Assemble pieces as listed, top to bottom:
1x2 plate centered on stud of 1x1 round brick...
...centered on 2x2 cylinder
..."laser" attached under front edge of cylinder as arms
...and 1x1's attached behind arms (like taillights :-)
...put onto 2x2 turntable
...put onto 2x2 cylinder
Poorly drawn from the front:
====== <----- 1x2 plate
[] <----- 1x1 round brick
[]
+----+ <----- 2x2 cylinder
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+----+
O========O <----- 1x2 laser in front, 2 1x1's in back
====== <----- 2x2 turntable
+----+ <----- 2x2 cylinder
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+----+
It's roughly minifig scale.
- Mike, turning 10 again
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| In lugnet.space, Mike Clemens writes: [...] It comes out looking a little (...) Oh... fudge. Stupid non-monospace fonts. Sorry about that totally unreadable diagram. I'll try to find some ldraw pics of the parts if anyone is truly interested. - Mike (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| I seem to remember a classic space set that only consisted of 5 mf scale robots made from common pieces. Ring any bells? I scrolled through the set listings, but the closest I could find had just a couple robots paired with some spacemen. Any help (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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